Mr Gee

Mr Gee has been a veteran on the UK’s Live poetry scene for over two decades. Perhaps best known as the “Poet Laureate” on Russell Brand’s SONY award-winning Radio show, he has delivered two TEDx talks and his work has featured in the Times, The Guardian, and the New Statesman. He’s presented several radio series: ‘Bespoken Word’, ‘Rhyme & Reason’ and ‘Poetic Justice’ all on BBC Radio 4, the latter of which focused on the extensive rehabilitation work that he does in prisons. He’s an advisor for the prison mentor and trainee charity Switchback and a trustee for the street art charity Paint the Change. 

He contributed a short story towards the 2021 anthology The Other Windrush (on Pluto Press) and his poetry has been used to launch the 2020 FA Cup Finals and the 2021 Euros. He has most recently been mixing poetry with data analytics to create the digital art-piece Bring Me My Fire Truck for the Open Data Institute, which was showcased at the Tate Britain for their 2020 series Blake Now.